Maths On Track: What Makes for Success?

Unit Implementation Plan

Organisation and tasks before beginning the unit?

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Arrange meeting with teacher team/s to clarify unit goals and tasks. / Coordinator / 4 weeks before start of unit
Arrange for speaker from car racing club if possible or other racing enthusiast who be a guest speaker. / Coordinator / 4 weeks before start of unit
Arrange for support personnel for students with special needs. / Coordinator / 4 weeks before start of unit
Teachers check that all students have network access, know their logon details and have signed Acceptable Use Policy / Home room teacher / 2 weeks before start of unit
Arrange for technicians to sort out any access issues for students. / Coordinator / 2 weeks before start of unit
Remind teachers to book computers, data projectors and Interactive whiteboards as required. / Coordinator / 2 weeks before start of unit
Send out parent permission slips for permission to photograph and publish photographs of students working on unit activities. / Coordinator / 2 weeks before start of unit
Set up Seeing Reason Thinking tool, team logins and URL for distribution to students. / Nominated teacher / 1 week before start of unit
Organise/create class blog, upload support documentation. / Nominated teacher / 1 week before start of unit
Prepare/photocopy handouts as required, for each student team. / Coordinator / 1 week before start of unit
Post CFQs in rooms and on notice boards / Coordinator / 1 week before start of unit

Organisation and tasks during the unit?

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Who?

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Assign project teams. / Teachers and students / 1st session
Arrange for students to meet and greet guest speakers (if arranged). / Coordinator / before 1st session
Set up room for IWB discussion using KWHL. / Coordinator / before 1st session
Introduce class blog distribute URLs. / Coordinator / 1st session
Distribute Team Organisation and Roles Checklist (available also from blog) / Class teachers / 1st session
Familiarise students with CFQs. / Class teachers / 1st session
Provide opportunities for students to post to blogs (encourage students to post from home) / Class teachers / Ongoing
Provide opportunities for students to access Seeing Reason tool and work on their causal maps. / Class teachers / Sessions 2 to 8
Take pictures of students working on activities. / Class teachers or students / Ongoing
Provide exercises in preparation for Problem Solving Analysis Task. / Class teachers / Sessions 2 to 5
Distribute Problem Solving Analysis Task (partially to be completed at home). / Class teachers / Sessions 6, 7 & 8
Provide opportunity for completion of final causal map (Seeing Reason Tool) / Class teachers / Session 9
Remind students to post individual responses to unit questions on blog (encourage students to think beyond the context of teams in the motorcar race). / Class teachers / About Session 9
Post Final Causal maps in classroom / Class teachers or student helpers / Before Session 10
Provide class time for discussion of Essential question in the broader context of teams beyond the motor car race / Class teachers / Session 10
Video personal interviews of student individual response to the Essential Question / Students to do videoing if possible / Session 11 & 12

Organisation and tasks after the unit?

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Edit individual videos into one class response to EQ and post to blog. / Coordinator or student volunteers / Week following interviews (ASAP)
Remind students to organize one adult and one peer to post feedback on their interview response to the EQ. / Class teachers / Immediately after posting video
Provide final feedback to students on their performance. / Class teachers / <2 weeks after unit concludes
Present student award certificate(s). / Principal, AP, visitor / <2 weeks after unit concludes
Send home parent newsletter showcasing the unit and student work / Coordinator and student volunteers / 1-2 weeks after unit concludes
Send thank you to guests, support people (parents, students, teachers, technicians and others as appropriate.) / Student volunteers / 1 week after unit concludes
Arrange meeting with teacher team/s to discuss achievement of student learning outcome and implications for next unit of work. / Coordinator / Within 3 weeks of end of unit
Arrange meeting with teacher team/s and students to provide feedback and to review and refine theunit. / Coordinator / Within 3 weeks of end of unit

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